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How to sign: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
Similiar / Same: limit, circumscribe
Categories: decrease, lessen, minify
Within this category: cap, content, demarcate, hold down, number, ration, restrict
How to sign: place limits on (extent or access)
"restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends";
Similiar / Same: limit, throttle, restrain, trammel, restrict, bound
Categories: check, contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate
Within this category: baffle, clamp down, draw the line, gate, hamper, inhibit, mark off, reduce, restrain, rule, stiffen, tie
How to sign: deprive of freedom; take into confinement
Similiar / Same: detain
Within this category: bind over, cage, imprison, imprison, intern, keep, keep in, straiten, trap
How to sign: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
"This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists h;
Similiar / Same: restrain, hold
Categories: disable, disenable, incapacitate
Within this category: enchain, fetter, ground, impound, pen up, pinion, pound, tie down
